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Extreme temperatures compound poverty in the hottest city of Pakistan
A woman fills containers with water during a heat wave in Jacobabad, Pakistan on May 11, 2022. Photo: AFPBy the time Pak
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Nightmare on temple street: thieves return stolen Indian idols
Indian commuters walk through a studio where clay idols of Goddess Durga are ready for the upcoming Durga Puja festival
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UN chief calls to rescue SDGs
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva via video message on February 28,
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Nations urged to fight food insecurity
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Photo: XinhuaUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Wednesda
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Paris climate goals not being met
More than 4,000 vehicles produced by Chinese automakers wait to be loaded on a ship in Lianyungang, East China's Ji
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Writer of How To Murder Your Husband on trial for killing her husband
Photo: VCG An American writer who penned a piece called How To Murder Your Husband is on trial for murdering her husband
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WHA to keep focus on pandemic
Delegates attend the resumed session of the 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) via video link in Beijing, capital of China
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Electric car sales soar but raw materials a concern: report
Electric cars produced by Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory are seen at a port in Shanghai on May 15, 2022. It is the se
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Rich countries putting children both at home and around the world at risk: UNICEF
UNICEF continues to provide recreational activities at the settlement for internally displaced people in the west of Afg
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Monkeypox not mutated: WHO
Monkeypox Photo: VCGThe World Health Organization does not have evidence that the monkeypox virus has mutated, a senior
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Countries agree to overhaul WHO funding
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization. Photo: VCGShaken by the pandemic, the World Health Or
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Risk of blood clots in lung doubled for COVID-19 survivors
A COVID-19 testing site is seen on Times Square in New York, the United States, May 17, 2022.(Photo: Xinhua)Coronavirus
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Monkeypox containable: WHO
General view during the opening day of the 61st World Health Organization assembly on May 19, 2008 in Geneva. Photo: AFP
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Daredevil granny, 103, beats record for parachute jump
Parachute jump. Photo: ICA 103-year-old Swedish woman on Sunday set the world record for being the oldest person to comp
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Lumberjack athletes battle for woodcutting crown
Spruce Timber Logging in Forest during sunset. Photo: ICSixteen athletes from around the world sent woodchips flying on
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Monkeypox presents moderate risk to public health at global level, WHO says
Karl Lauterbach (right), Federal Minister of Health, and Lothar Wieler, president of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), ho
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Lessons from around the world
Teen-aged mothers share a dormitory with their infants during a break from their classes at the Serene Haven Girl's
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Big tobacco’s impact ‘devastating’: WHO
Buyers examine tobacco leaves on the opening day of Zimbabwe's tobacco auction season at Tobacco Sales Floor in Har
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Frenchman beats high-wire record at Mont Saint-Michel
View of the Mont Saint-Michel tidal island, situated in France on the border between Normandy and Brittany. Photo: ICFre
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Monkeypox pandemic unlikely
Monkeypox Photo: VCGThe WHO said Monday it was not concerned for now that the spread of monkeypox beyond the African cou
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